Sentences with phrase «about reactor safety»
But the furor that began last year over leakage of radioactive tritium from underground pipes into the groundwater around the Vermont Yankee nuclear reactor in Vernon, Vt., illustrated how concerns about reactor safety could suddenly swamp relicensing plans.
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The fire was extinguished quickly and caused no safety problems at the reactor, but it spilled about 3,000 gallons of transformer fluid into the Hudson River.
The rest of this special News & Analysis section examines what we have learned about radiation risks from previous exposures (p. 1504), improvements in safety since the boiling water designs at Fukushima (p. 1506), what to do with the wrecked reactors (p. 1507), and damage to research facilities from the earthquake (p. 1509).
When I read about the new safety features in the proposed nuclear reactors at Hinkley Point in the UK (19...
Our scientists and reactor experts will be there on these days to answer questions about the facility and the safety measures.
The Hualong One reactor design has passed its design certification by the National Nuclear Safety Administration (NNSA) and has now been launched with some fanfare by the National Energy Administration (NEA) which brought it about by high - level edict.
In April, when I met local people in Gyeongju, they were worried about the safety of nuclear reactors.
The fact that different and superior reactor designs and safety protocols make it highly unlikely that Fukushima Daiichi 1 will «do a Chernobyl» does not stop the speculation that it will, and is about to, however.
The emergency shutdown of a nuclear reactor in northern Germany has thrust worries about atomic safety back on to the political agenda ahead of a national election that will decide the fate of the country's nuclear plants.
[iii] Although some countries like Germany are worried about nuclear safety because of the nuclear accident in Japan due to the tsunami, plant safety enhancements (e.g. passive cooling features that do not rely on generators to keep water flowing to reactor cores) make future accidents like Fukushima unlikely.
These ads reflect people's anxiety about the safety of nuclear reactors and the disapproval they feel about having their hard - earned money spent on something they clearly think is a bad idea, especially when safer, more affordable, less risky energy choices exist such as efficiency, wind, solar, and bioenergy.
The anti-nuclear movement has been warning of the dangers of a devastating nuclear accident for years, but those efforts have always been met with dismissive assurances both by electric power companies and the government about the safety of the reactors.